Women & Madness

Classic, seminal, definitive - when Women and Madness first published in 1972, it was the first book to address critical questions about women and mental health. Combining interviews with patients with an analysis of women's roles in history, society and myth, Chesler exposes and addresses the terrible double standard prevalent in the field of mental health. Now fully revised and updated for 2006 - this book includes an extensive new introduction and addresses a wide range of important current issues, such as inter-feminist fighting, paedophilia, Islamic women's suicide, clinical distrust of mothers, weight and eating disorders, lesbians, bisexuality and homophobia , and many others.